May 18

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 18. From 1900 until now. May 18 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Pope John Paul II (1920), Yannick Noah (1960) and Tina Fey (1970). Several movies were released around May 18 over the years, such as Pan's Labyrinth in 2006 directed by Guillermo del Toro and The Tenant in 1976 directed by Roman Polanski.
But much more happened on May 18 over the years: find out below

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2019 Eurovision Song Contest 2019: Duncan Laurence, representing the Netherlands, wins the 2019 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Arcade". It is the country's first win since 1975. (The Guardian)
2018 Santa Fe High School shooting: A school shooting takes place at Santa Fe High School in Texas, United States. Eight students and two teachers are killed and thirteen others are injured. (KTRK-TV), (BBC)
2017 United States aircraft bomb a convoy belonging to the Syrian pro-government militia within a so-called "deconfliction zone" around Al-Tanf. (CBS News) (Independent)
2016 War in North-West Pakistan: Twin bombings kill a police officer and wound nine people in Peshawar, Pakistan. (FOX News)
2015 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: The Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes against the Houthi rebels resume after a five-day ceasefire. (BBC)
2014 A group headed by Khalifa Haftar, which includes renegade Libyan general Mokhtar Farnana, launches an attack on the Parliament of Libya. (AP)
2013 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: Gunmen break into the home of an anti-terrorism police officer in the Baghdad suburbs, killing him and his family. (Voice of America)
2012 Mexican Drug War:
2011 Three Tunisian security officers are killed in a clash with gunmen in the north of the country. (IOL)
2010 A new study has found that the gap in wealth between white and black Americans increased by more than four times between 1984 and 2007. (BBC)
2009 Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
2008 At the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards show is held. Entertainer of the Year: Kenny Chesney
2007 A bomb in a market place in Juliaca in southern Peru kills 6 people and injures about 50. (BBC)
2006 The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
2005 According to a spokesman for the Georgian Interior Ministry, a hand grenade found among spectators during a speech by U.S. President George W. Bush last week in Tbilisi failed to function, although it was live and could have exploded. It was originally thought to have been a dummy grenade. (CNN)
2004 Sonia Gandhi declines the post of Prime Minister of India. (BBC)
2003 ''The Guardian'' reporter Andrew Meldrum, the last foreign journalist in Zimbabwe, is forcibly deported after covering the country for the last 23 years.
2000 Boo.com collapses due to lack of funds after six months.
1999 The Backstreet Boys release their album, Millennium.
1998 The US Department of Justice and twenty state attorneys general file a lawsuit against Microsoft, charging the company with violations of the Sherman Act: exclusive dealing and unlawful tying, monopoly maintenance in the operating system market, and attempted monopoly of the browser market.
1997 King David, opens at New Amsterdam Theater, New York City
1996 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Lisa Wagner.
1995 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma.
1994 Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
1993 Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola.
1992 US Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs.
1991 117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54.
1990 Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
1989 Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
1988 Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen.
1986 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yard pool.
1985 One Night In Bangkok by Murray Head hits #3
1983 US Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program.
1982 Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion.
1980 China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket
1978 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work.
1977 Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164
1974 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6.
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany.
1972 Me & The Chimp, last airs on CBS-TV
1971 Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
1969 Apollo 10 (Stafford / Cernan / Young) launched toward lunar orbit
1968 Al Kaline hits his 307th homerun, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Detroit Tiger.
1967 Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London
1965 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain
1964 David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC
1963 Beast in Me closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 4 performances
1961 Donnybrook! opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 68 performances
1960 Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for over 30 yrs)
1959 Judy by David Seville hits #86
1958 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open.
1957 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2.
1956 Mickey Mantle hits homerun from both sides of plate for record third time.
1955 Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam
1954 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect.
1953 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
1952 Professor WF Libby says Stonehenge dates back to 1848 BCE.
1951 UN moves HQ to New York City
1950 Liar opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances
1949 Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates.
1948 Ballet Ballads opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins; they are accused of collaborating with the Germans.
1943 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea.
1942 New York City ends night baseball games for the rest of war.
1941 An Egyptian steamer sinks
1940 German troops conquer Brussels
1935 Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on cricket debut for Somerset.
1934 Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
1933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, to build dams for electricity generation.
1929 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8.
1927 Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped
1922 Sergei Diaghilev, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.
1918 Netherlands Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia.
1917 US passes Selective Service act.
1916 US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft.
1912 Maurits Binger establishes two Dutch movie companies.
1911 President / Dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
1910 The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
1908 US Congress mandates that "In God We Trust" appear on all US coins.
1904 American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco.
1903 The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens.
1900 Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga.
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